Daily Practice · 13+ Common Entrance
January 1996 - 13+ Common Entrance 5-a-day
Every sheet in January 1996
The same date always regenerates the same five questions, so a sheet you print today is the sheet a classmate prints tomorrow.
- 1st January 1996In the reactivity series, state which is more reactive: zinc or copper.
- 2nd January 1996The Sun is much larger than the Earth. State what type of object the Sun is, and name the force that keeps the Earth in orbit around it.
- 3rd January 1996Name the type of rock formed when layers of sediment, such as sand or mud, are compressed together over a long period of time.
- 4th January 1996Write the word equation for photosynthesis.
- 5th January 1996A thermometer has graduations every 1 degree C. A student takes a single temperature reading of 40 degrees C. Calculate the percentage uncertainty in this reading.
- 6th January 1996A text about coral reefs moves from explaining what coral is, to how reefs form, to why they are under threat. What is this structure called?
- 7th January 1996Explain why a poet might use short, one-word lines to describe a sudden event, such as an accident.
- 8th January 1996A poem compares grief to 'a stone carried in the pocket, never quite forgotten.' Name this technique.
- 9th January 1996Correct the tense error: Last week, the choir practises for two hours every evening.
- 10th January 1996Punctuate this exchange between two speakers, starting a new line for each: are you ready asked sam almost said priya
- 11th January 1996Which two poetic techniques appear in the line 'The streetlamp's silver stare slid over its fur'?
- 12th January 1996What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 13th January 1996Find the gradient of the line joining (1, 4) and (5, 16).
- 14th January 1996Find the midpoint of the line segment joining A(-3, 5) and B(7, -1).
- 15th January 1996Find 35% of 180.
- 16th January 1996A shop increases a price by 25%, then later reduces the new price by 20%. Work out the overall percentage change from the original price.
- 17th January 1996An open-top fish tank, with no lid, is a cuboid with length 50 cm, width 30 cm and height 25 cm. Work out the total area of glass needed to make the tank.
- 18th January 1996Simplify sqrt(45) + sqrt(20), giving your answer in the form k sqrt(5).
- 19th January 1996A chord subtends an angle of 76 degrees at the centre of a circle. Work out the angle it subtends at the circumference, on the major arc.
- 20th January 1996A journey of 84 km takes 1 hour 45 minutes. Work out the average speed in km/h.
- 21st January 1996A car travels 210 km in 3.5 hours at a constant speed. Calculate how far it would travel in 5 hours at the same speed.
- 22nd January 1996Name the organelle in a plant cell that contains chlorophyll and is the site of photosynthesis.
- 23rd January 1996State the colour universal indicator turns in a strong alkali.
- 24th January 1996A student doubles the frequency of a wave while keeping its speed the same. State what happens to the wavelength.
- 25th January 1996Two identical bulbs are each connected on their own to an identical battery. State how the brightness of a bulb connected on its own compares with an identical bulb connected in series with a second bulb to the same type of battery.
- 26th January 1996State how long it takes, approximately, for the Moon to orbit the Earth once.
- 27th January 1996State the word equation for aerobic respiration.
- 28th January 1996State the name given to a value read from a graph beyond the range of the data that was actually measured.
- 29th January 1996A writer describes the wind as "clawing at their jackets, determined to drag them off the mountain." Name the technique used here.
- 30th January 1996What do the letters PAF stand for when analysing a non-fiction text?
- 31st January 1996A newspaper report about a restored pier states: 'Engineers replaced over eleven thousand individual timbers during the two-year project.' What retrieval detail answers the question, how many timbers were replaced?